A sealed medieval reliquary cross has been found intact at Lystra in central Turkey - and conservators say it will remain unopened. What relic might it have been made to hold?

On Feb. 14, sweethearts of all ages will exchange cards, flowers, candy, and more lavish gifts in the name of St. Valentine. But as a historian of Christianity, I can tell you that at the root of our modern holiday is a beautiful fiction. St. Valentine was no lover or patron of love.

30,000-year-old Stone Age hunter's toolkit discovered in Czech Republic reveals Ice Age survival strategies, trade networks, and sophisticated tool use by Gravettian peoples.

The macabre discovery of a ring of children’s skulls buried in the earth around lakes in Germany and Switzerland has revealed an age-old tradition of making offerings and sacrifices to the water gods.

Egyptian–Chinese archaeologists uncover a new sacred lake at Karnak in Luxor, alongside Osiris chapels and Late Period evidence linked to temple ritual life.

A newly reported 5,000-year-old Sinai inscription depicts violent Egyptian dominance and may reference the god Min, offering rare evidence of early colonial control.

Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don’t really show any overall preference for left or right handedness.

A 15th-century French painting holds a prehistoric secret, hidden in plain sight. The Saint Stephen murder stone in this painting is actually a prehistoric Acheulean handaxe!

A stone tool believed to be 15,800 years old or older and with bison blood on it, has been excavated from deep under

Human beings used to be defined as “the tool-maker” species, but our awareness of animal ‘tooling’ has come a long way.